I actually have turned off my TV almost entirely. Not because I'm superior, but because I'm a criminal. I download several shows regularly and am vastly entertained. So my glowing box is the computer. It's not as if I'm out exercising at the gym.
I notice one real difference in my outlook as a result of this sea-change: during the one hour I do have the television on (Lost), I barely tolerate the commercials. I don't numbly sit and stare at them. They make me crazy. I'm actively appalled at them--much more so than when I was a regular viewer.
I experience this change the way I've experienced certain healthy improvements in my life (cutting down on meat, preferring organic foods, drinking more and better water, stuff like that): a sort of refinement of sensibility that no longer tolerates what used to be common, and a concomitant increase in (perceived) mental clarity. So I equate turning off the TV with an improvement in my well-being.
In that regard, I'm all for turning off the TV. But I still love my shows.
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Date: 2005-04-28 10:28 am (UTC)I notice one real difference in my outlook as a result of this sea-change: during the one hour I do have the television on (Lost), I barely tolerate the commercials. I don't numbly sit and stare at them. They make me crazy. I'm actively appalled at them--much more so than when I was a regular viewer.
I experience this change the way I've experienced certain healthy improvements in my life (cutting down on meat, preferring organic foods, drinking more and better water, stuff like that): a sort of refinement of sensibility that no longer tolerates what used to be common, and a concomitant increase in (perceived) mental clarity. So I equate turning off the TV with an improvement in my well-being.
In that regard, I'm all for turning off the TV. But I still love my shows.